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These days the farmers market is just packed with apples and every time I see them I think that it is past time for me to get down to using them in a recipe rather than just snacking on them. It has been far too long since I last made muffins and I was thinking that some apple muffins would be an excellent way to start the day! When I think about apple muffins I am imagining the harvest and the muffins have large chunks of tender apple and they are nice moist and and light brown in colour from the whole wheat flour and rolled oats along with a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg. To keep the muffins on the lighter side I use oil rather than butter and I replace a lot of the oil with vanilla yogurt and apple sauce which help keep the muffins moist and tender. It is a good thing that the muffins themselves are fairly healthy because what I do to them next is not at all diet friendly.

I could have just stopped there and these apple muffins would have been great but I was thinking about something a little more decadent and my plan was to stuff the muffins with a cheesecake filling, to top them with a rolled oat streusel and finally to cover them in a caramel sauce! The cheesecake stuffing was pretty simple in that I was going to place half of the batter into the muffin pan, top it with a bit of cheesecake and then top that with the other half of the batter. This way when the muffins baked they would already have their cheesecake stuffing which would cook and set right in the muffin. The rolled oat streusel is just a simple mixture of rolled oats, butter and sugar and it is mixed until it forms crumbs and those crumbs are sprinkled onto the muffin batter before baking them. The final piece of these amazing muffins is a home made caramel sauce that I spiked with a pinch of coarse grained sea salt to give it the hint of the exotic.

Despite the length of the recipe, these cheesecake apple muffins with streusel topping and caramel sauce are actually pretty easy to make and the weekend is a great time to make them. Any holiday weekend would definitely benefit from having these muffins make an appearance for breakfast!

How much unsweeten apple sauce do you add to the muffin mix? Would you recommend to serve these muffins warm or room temperature? I am making these tonight to bring to a brunch. Very Excited to try them out!

Hey Kevin,I gotta say your recipes are very great. This muffin recipe is the second of yours I tried. I know this is not a baking blog, but please provide us with many more baking recipes. Am I right you have not published any cupcake recipe yet? Best regards to Canada!Kyoungmi

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I came to realize that my meals were boring and that I had been eating the same few dishes over and over again for years. It was time for a change! I now spend my free time searching for, creating and trying tasty new recipes in my closet sized kitchen.